Marking the end of an era, Intel has decided to remove references to speed (megahertz or gigahertz) from its chip-naming strategy. Intel processor brands will have series numbers instead: For instance, the 300 series will be Celeron chips.

My Moblog

Want to blog your every waking minute? Nokia has introduced Lifeblog: multimedia diary software you store on a mobile phone to organize photos, videos, and text messages. Connect the phone to a PC via USB to transfer items into Lifeblog software on a PC. "Imaging phones have become like life recorders," says Nokia director Christian Lindholm.

More information on "moblogging"plus demonstrations of mobile diariesis at www.nokia.com/lifeblog. AtomicLava, Mfop2, and Textamerica also offer personal blogging tools for phones.

Mood Ring TV

TV Philips is preparing new TV sets featuring patent-pending Ambilight technology, which will cause colored lights on the perimeter of a TV screen to backlight scenes dynamically; for instance, ambient blue enhancement could be used for an ocean scene.

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